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I have always been interested in the impressionist style of art, especially the work of Claude Monet. When making my book selection I took this under consideration and chose a book written by Raymond Cogniat entitled Monet and His World. This lively illustrated book is written with great detail. Using explanations, illustrations, pictures and paintings,…

  For instance, you might greet one of your aunts with the name “??”, which effectively means “father’s older sister”, or you might call another aunt “?? ” which means “father’s younger sister”. Paternal and maternal grandparents are each named differently aswell. There is a distinction between your father’s father “?? ” and your mother’s…

  Its an amazing thought how the Sumerian economy was a highly developed one and had man legalities, such as contracts, deeds, wills, and promises to pay-I actually thought that such laws were very recent ones. There were many disputes over inheritance, divorce settlements, and personal injury. Legal cases were heard by king, who also…

In his book Language Death, David Crystal starts by looking at the scale of the threat to minority languages. There are debates over the definition of “language” and estimates of the number of languages vary, but a number somewhere around 6000 is plausible. Perhaps more important is the distribution of speakers: Only 4% of languages…

To think theoretically one has to avoid treating the task as that of formulating an appropriate definition of theory1James N Rosenau When one thinks of the reason for theory, we only have to look to our past. As intuitive beings we have always had the urge to define events in our world. People in the…

Priestley wrote this play to send a message to the people. During the Second World War, the people had united to fight one common enemy. This unity was what he wanted us to understand and believe in. He wanted to give everyone a choice. Should we go back to the way it was before the…

Explore how the poet presents his thoughts and feelings about what is happening in the world around him in “One World Down the Drain” Simon Rae’s “One World Down the Drain” attempts to raise the awareness over the issue of pollution in the world, and the need to take responsibility. Throughout the poem a casual tone…

The play’s an absolute roller-coaster ride–like riding squalls coming across the sea. If we get it right, it should make the audience’s hair stand on end.” That’s actor Sam Waterston’s judgment about Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert Sherwood’s Pulitzer-winning play of 1938. Waterston plays the eponymous role at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater through Jan….

For everyone, home is a basic existential experience. What a person perceives as home (in the philosophical sense of the word) can be compared to a set of concentric circles, with one’s “I” at the center. My home is the room I live in for a time, the room I’ve grown accustomed to and have,…